Uhmmm I think the Universe is messing with me!!!

Okay, today I posted my myspace status as "Kimberly is watching "Rockford Files". James Garner was so dreamy. :)".

I've always had the hots for him, even though he's an older man. He's the definition of "ruggedly handsome".

So, two hours after I posted my status, I'm flipping channels and run across the show "8 Simple Rules" on ABC Family channel. I stop because I've always been a John Ritter fan, and I haven't watched the show since he died 5 years ago. (I haven't watched Three's Company either. It just makes me too sad.)

So anyway, the commercial ends and it opens in the family's kitchen. The doors opens and in walks James Garner. An 80 year old James Garner. A BALD James Garner. A GRANDFATHERLY James Garner. *shiver* I was like "WTF?!" I mean, it makes sense that he's an old man by now, but I just didn't need to see it so soon after I'd been lusting after him today!

Oh, and his scene? haha The family is coming back from one of the kids' plays and he says, "Well, that was worth missing 'Rockford Files' for." LOL

Well, that sucks. Jeff Healey died.

Some of you may not be familiar with Jeff Healey, but all of you that grew up in the 80's should remember him. He was the blind guitar player/singer featured in the movie "Roadhouse" with Patrick Swayze. He also had a hit with the song "Angel Eyes".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYz_LHKrgDY

I guess I never knew *why* he was blind. He lost both of his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight-months-old. He found out later in life that he carried a gene that made him predisposed to other forms of cancer. He had been treated in the last couple of years for lung cancer.

Even though we hadn't heard much in the US about Jeff since the 80's, he had become a jazz musician in his native Canada. He even had his own radio show.

Heh. I'll always remember one of his scenes in "Roadhouse". Patrick Swayze had just come to the Double Deuce and a huge bar fight broke out. Dalton kicked some serious ass, of course. When things died down, Jeff says, "The name.... is Dalton." I don't know why it cracks me up, but it does. Probably because I'm obsessed with that movie.

I don't know why it saddens me so much when someone I don't even know dies. I guess I felt even worse when I heard about Jeff because I felt like his life was probably difficult enough, due to the blindness. Adding cancer on top of that just sucks. Well, cancer always sucks, of course, but he was 41 years old, dammit.
Rest in peace, Jeff.

Suspended in Time

Okay, you can't tell it from my typing, but I was totally singing "Suspended in Time" from Xanadu when I typed the subject of this blog.

But I know for certain
Goodbye is a criiiime
So love if you need me
Suspend me in tiiiiiiime

I wanted you guys to see this video clip. It's amazing. I would have loved to have been there.

http://www.maniacworld.com/frozen-in-grand-central-station.html

Okay, and while I was talking to a friend about posting this blog, she asked me if I had seen the following video. I hadn't, but it made me laugh my ass off AND it falls in line with my 80's theme lately. haha Thanks, Jill!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6EDAZ3crdY